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Radio Data System (RDS) => Control Software => Topic started by: Jan on September 11, 2016, 06:32:41 pm

Title: How to diagnose TCP or UDP data sent by your broadcast automation system
Post by: Jan on September 11, 2016, 06:32:41 pm
To find out how the data are being sent from the broadcast automation system to the RDS encoder, the data can be temporarily redirected to a TCP/UDP logging application running on a PC. This helps to diagnose various issues, particularly as regards the configuration of either the software or the RDS encoder. The broadcast automation systems typically contain lots of options. Success depends upon a number of settings and things working together correctly. While correcting problems is usually quite simple, the difficulty lays in knowing where to look. The solution is given here.

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